From then until now...
Wednesday 23rd January 2013 As you know Roxanne has another son Cean who will be 12 next month, it transpires that when Cean was born Roxanne breast fed him and that was ALL! She never bathed him, changed a nappy nothing, her Mum and Sister did everything. So Daniel being born here is like having her 1st child and I could see the fear in her eyes as the midwives were talking to her about things.
A lot of things at home connected with childbirth and children are based on old wives tales and superstitions!! And this is what Roxanne knows.
We left hospital on the Sunday morning, the midwives having shown Roxanne (us) how to bath and change nappies, Roxanne was breastfeeding Daniel but he hadn’t really settled into proper sleeping at the hospital.
We live in one room at the hotel (ensuite) and the Hotel management and staff have been absolutely fantastic about all of this, we have borrowed one of the cots and bottle warmers from the Hotel, we have been inundated with gifts of clothes from our colleagues and my manager bought us a steriliser this is all much appreciated as we obviously don’t wish to spend that much at this present time, although we did buy a pram/car seat/buggy online half price.
Roxanne continued to breast feed Daniel but as soon as we put him in the cot he would be unhappy until he was latched on the breast again so spent Sunday and Monday night sleeping in the bed with us, it was obvious to see that Roxanne was very tired and in my opinion Daniel wasn’t getting enough milk. On Tuesday morning I put my foot down and told Roxanne we were going to put him on the bottle, we could see then he was getting enough and also I could then help with the feeds therefore giving her time to sleep.
Since this decision was made Daniel is the most contented baby we could wish for, he feeds, sleeps 2/3 hours then feeds again. Tuesday morning I gave him his 1st bath and he loves the water not a murmur from him, since then Roxanne has bathed him with no problems.
I am very aware of the fact that we have staff in rooms either side of us but can honestly say that Daniel doesn’t cry, we get a moan from him if he wakes before we are ready for his bottle or if his bum needs changing.
We have had 3 visits from the community midwives and they are happy with everything his current weight is 7lb 10oz and we have a visit later today from the Health Visitor and that should be it.
We have taken him out for a walk just one day last week in order to get his passport photo taken and the application is in......
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